For a team that had been together for only a week, the Fort Frances Predators more than held their own. Thrown together at a moment’s notice for a chance to play in the Fort Frances K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ hockey tournament here last weekend, the Predators (made up […]
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The Arctic climate didn’t seem quite appropriate for a Mexican stand-off. Nevertheless, the visiting Muskie boys’ hockey team and the host Red Lake Rams each took a victory by identical scores in NorWOSSA action there last Friday and Saturday. The black-and-gold (12-2-2 in league play) fired the first salvo Friday […]
The men were off the mark so it was up to the ladies to uphold local pride at the Sunset Country Open roll-offs at Plaza Lanes here last weekend. Three of the four ladies representing Plaza Lanes secured berths at the provincial showdown in Sudbury in March. But none of […]
It was goals, goals, and more goals for the Muskie girls’ hockey team, who bombed Red Lake 10-0 on Friday night in Ear Falls and then 7-1 on Saturday afternoon in Cochenour. Goal scorers in both games were unavailable by press time. But it also was more bad luck for […]
Everything they’ve touched has turned to gold, but the Fort Frances K of C Knights PeeWee ‘AA’ hockey team will treasure this victory more than most. Matt DePiero’s empty-net goal with 50 seconds to play Sunday afternoon at the Ice for Kids Arena went from being an afterthought to a […]
Youth was served at the annual “Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run” during “Icebox Days” in International Falls on Saturday morning. Emo’s Andrew Friesen and fellow 13-year-old Timo Brielmann from Pinewood posted the best results of any local runners with their showings in the five-km event. Friesen covered the distances in […]
Lorne Jackson was banking on his team rebounding from a trying season to make it to back to the provincial playdowns. But by the time he threw his final stone at the northwesterns last week in Thunder Bay, it was abundantly clear he wasn’t even going to be around to […]
Curtis Boivin was beset by some mechanical bugs, but still made a statement that he belongs up there with some of the best young snowmobile racers in the world. The 11-year-old Fort Frances rider zoomed his way to a pair of fifth-place finishes at the world snowmobile championships in Eagle […]
It wasn’t quite a wake, but the atmosphere at the Little Beaver Snow Park definitely was not upbeat when the Sunset Country Snowmobile Club met there last week. Apart from the board of directors and about a dozen club members, virtually no one from the public attended the meeting, which […]
With word the Kiwanis skate park committee has begun making the big push for its new brick fundraiser campaign, in hopes of seeing a shovel in the ground this spring, Fort Frances Mayor Dan Onichuk said he’s definitely in favour of the project. “I think it’s already off the ground. […]
The latest survey by the Ministry of Natural Resources indicates a decline in the moose population in the eastern end of Rainy River District by roughly 40 percent since the last one in 2000. Between Jan. 3-8, the MNR conducted an aerial survey of Wildlife Management Unit 11A, which extends […]
Are you ever really going to roll all those pennies in the change dish on your dresser? Or from that ever-filling jar on top of the fridge? Well, the local Alzheimer Society is hoping families find a better use for those copper coins than just taking up space when its […]
